I don't come from a journalism background. I was a public defender, and still consider myself to be one, honestly. In the law, a profession where ability to represent *any* position is *essential,* we still generally recognize that humans are humans with their own perspectives.
When I started doing journalistic work with, working for The Appeal and hosting Appeal Live, it was incredibly strange to me to encounter media norms, in which one is expected to take on a pretense of inhuman, unrealistic neutrality.
This case isn't even a close one--things you said or did long before you had a job, generally, aren't the kind of *on the job* things that can get you fired...unless you're into pretending that journalists aren't humans with human perspectives.

Which is dumb, and unrealistic.
It's time we stop pretending that the people reporting the news aren't people, and time we welcome the kind of open acknowledgments of positionality that make news reporting more honest, realistic, and inclusive.

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25 May
This is a BIG DEAL and will need a *lot* of public support to pass. If you care about ending police violence, you should care about this bill. Here's why.

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delawareonline.com/story/news/pol…
Delaware, unlike basically every other state, has a weird law in place that actually *shields records of police misconduct* from public view.

You read that right: not *any* police records, records of actual wrongdoing.

They're secret.

The "bad apples" get protection.
The legal shielding afforded to bad cops in DE plays out as repeated instances of violence, and the thing we all fear about violent cops: the ability to hop around from town to town, leaving a wake of state violence against Black & Brown people.

Take Thomas Webster, for example
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28 Apr
I mean, do you know how many people I've defended for failing to pay (or being unable to pay) for a bus ticket??? It's SO COMMON and such a stupid reason to arrest someone.
When you consider that every arrest puts lives at risk--especially for BIPOC who are most likely to be arrested for failure to pay AND most likely to be harmed during arrest--transit fares are like this weird, secret little fast track to police violence.
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25 Apr
Just read that a % of people are skipping 2nd vaccine bc they fear side effects. Reading Twitter one would think everyone gets side effects. So for a little balance, hubs & I have ~zero effects from 2nd Pfizer. He's a little tired. I scrubbed the tub and made muffins today.
Since people are asking, thr muffins are grated pear & fresh ginger with cardamom and pine nuts.
And here's what I was reading

Millions Are Skipping Their Second Doses of Covid Vaccines nyti.ms/3gDYym2
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13 Apr
OK, let's talk about the warrant thing, since it's coming up in the Daunte conversation. Right now the conversation is grief and outrage and it feels inappropriate to dig in, but people are raising it, so there are some things you should know about "having a warrant out"
I was a public defender for the better part of a decade. I have represented thousands of people. People get warrants *all the time* everywhere for *all kinds of reasons*

Work
Job interview
School
No childcare
Sick
No transportation
And yes, sometimes bc they didn't want to go
The VAST MAJORITY of times I have seen warrants issued it's bc of things outside one's control (work, lack of transit, lack of childcare are the biggies). Forgetting is also a thing, and it's important to note that the #1 best way to stop that kind of warrant is...a text message.
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19 Nov 20
So...I'm reflecting today on when defunding police results in reduced budgets and reallocation. And I'm thinking abotu what I learned about minimizing policing as a public defender. A short thread.
Obviously, the best world is when we replace policing with better, more restorative and beneficial resources and services for community members. But the first logical step in this journey is always cutting back on what we have police do. This actually already happens all the time
When I practiced in the Bronx, every once in a while the police would throw a fit and refuse to do anything more than "necessary" arrests. And we were all like...great? Should we *always* only be arresting people when necessary?
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11 Nov 20
Like, if you find yourself confused, ask yourself:

Does it have a face?
Can it cry?
Can I hug it?
Does it have a favorite food?
Does it ever go to the doctor?

These are all helpful ways to tell if something might be a person, should you find yourself in the struggle.
I was careful to make my standard inclusive. Notice that dolphins are probably people.

But Waffle Heaven is not.
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